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W. MQGLOSKEY. DEVICE FOR OPENING AND GLOSING RAILWAY $WITGHES.

No. 390,181. Patented sept. 25, 1888;

l/V VI; IV T01? By Attorney N. PEIERS, Plww'ulhagnplmr, washing 0.6.

IINHED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM MOOLOSKEY, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO GODFREY KOPP, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR OPENING AND CLOSING RAILWAY-SWITCHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,181, dated September 25, 1888.

Application filed January 4, 1887. Renewed August 2l, 1888. Serial No. 283.366. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM MoGLosKEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans 5 and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Opening and Closing Railway- Switches, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying d rawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in automatic railway-switches, which will be fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top view of the improved switch. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through Fig. 1 in theplane indicated by dotted line was thereon. Fig. 3 is an enlarged'top view of the switch-head chair, showing the ends of three rails bearing thereon. Fig. 4 is a top andside view of one of the wheels used on the locomotive to actuate the switch-rails.

Referring to the annexed drawings by letter, A A A A designate the main-track rails,

which are rigidly spiked down upon the crossties R, that may be secured to longitudinal sleepers P.

B B designate the side-track rails, the ends of which, and also the ends of the switch rails O O, are supported upon switch-head chairs S S.

O O designate the laterally-movable switchrails,whicl1 are connected together by tie-rods 5 D D. One of the switch-rails is pivoted at H to a cross-tie, and the other switch-rail is free to slide endwise between parallel guideextensions I I of one of the main-track rails, A. The free ends of these switchrails are 0 supported upon the two switch-head chairs S S. Both of these chairs have raised side flanges,

and the chair S is recessed at a a to receive tenons formed on those ends of the rails A B which rest upon it.

E E designate two horizontal levers vertically pivoted to blocks J J outside of the rails A A and supported upon plates 9 9. These levers are connected by links or chains K K to the switclrrails O O, and they are also connected by chains F F to the vertically-movable ends of twospring-bars, L L.arrauged parallel to the rails A A, and rigidly secured to a cross-tie,O. The chains F pass through apertures in the necks of the rails A A and over pulleys 12 therein. (Shown in Fig. 2.) These bars L L are supported upon coiled springs N N, and they have secured upon them beveled blocks M M, slightly raised above the plane of the track.

For the purpose ofactuating the switch-rails to shift a train from the main track upon a side track, or to shift the switch from a side track into line with the main track, I employ rollers V, (shown in Fig. 4,) which are verti cally adjustably applied to the locomotive and 6 suitably placed under control of the engineer. These rollers are so arranged relatively to the blocks M M on the spring-bars L that when either one of said rollers is depressed it will depress a spring-bar L and shift the switch to the desired position.

What I claim is 1. The combination,with the main and side track rails, of connected switch-rails, one of which is provided at H and the other arranged 7 to move between guides II, the switch-head chairs, levers connected to said switch-rails, the vertically-movable spring-bars L, provided with beveled blocks, and the flexible connections F of these bars passing over pul- 8o leys p and connected to said levers, all constructed and adapted to operate substantially as described. I

2. The recessed switclrhead chair S,in combination with the rails A B, having tenons on their ends fitted into said recesses,as described. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' WILLIAM MOOLOSKEY. Vitnesses:

GEORGE J. YENEWINE, HENRY J. RHODES. 

